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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1952)
North-Central Nebraska’s BIG Newspaper . Volume 72.—Number 33. O’Neill, Nebr., Thursday, December 18, 1952. Seven Centa. L * Woman, 93, Dies Here; I Rites Friday - - Mrs. Betsy Aim One of Holt County’s Oldest Residents Mrs. Betsy Aim, 93, one of Holt county’s oldest residents, died about 5 o’clock Tuesday morning, December 16, at her home here. She had been ill several days. Funeral services will be con ducted at 2 p.m., Friday, Decem ber 19, from the Methodist church in O’Neill. Rev. Wallace B. Smith, church pastor, will officiate and BigMn Brothers will be in charge of funeral arrangements. Burial will be in Prospect Hill cemetery. The late Mrs. Aim, whose maiden name was Betsy Karlsen, was bom in Sweden May 13, 1859. She was a daughter of Pierre and Elsie Karlsen. She came to the U. S. as a young woman at the age of 25 and slopped in Illinois before coming to Holt county in 1884. On November 16, 1885, she mar ried Swan Aim at O'Neill. Mr. Aim had come to America in 1883 and the following year sent for his bride-elect. She came to America alone to join her fiance and wed. They became the parents of five children: The couple settled on a home stead two miles southeast of the onetime village of Minneola. Mr. Aim died November 20, 1915, and Mrs. Aim moved to O’Neill in 1919. Survivors include: Sons—Os car of Manhatten, Kans.; Arthur of O’Neill; daughters—Mrs. H. V. (Alma) Rosenkrans of Red bird; Mrs. Herman (Elsie) Dimmitt of Page and Miss Clara Aim of O’ Neill. She also leaves 12 grandchil dren, 13 great-grandchildren and three brothers and one sister, living in Sweden. Charles H. Luber Expires at Hospital LYNCH—Charles Henry Luber, 80, died Monday, December 15, in Sacred Heart hospital at Lynch. He had suffered a lingering ill ness. , The body will lie in state at the Coulthard funeral home un til the funeral hour, which will be 2 p.m., Friday, December 19, at Lynch. Rev. Marjorie Johnon, pastor of Spencer and Bristow Metho dist churches, will officiate, and burial will be in the Scottville cemetery. The late Mr. Luber was born December 28, 1872, at Forest Mills, la., where he spent his early childhood. In 1891 he went a- to Boyd county, where he ra ided on a farm north of Butte with his mother and three sisters. In 1899, he married Miss Lor etta B. Lancaster. That same year they homesteaded north west of Butte where they re sided for 34 years. In 1929 the family moved to Holt county, in the Scottville community, where they resided until his death. Survivors include: Widow; sons—Pvt. Marlin G. Luber of Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. (adopted); Floyd and Lyle, both of Dorsey; Lawrence of Memphis, Tenn., and Eivin of Pasadena, Calif.; daugh ter—Mrs. Iva Femau, Mrs. Irene Johnson, Miss Mary, all of Holt county; Mrs. Hazel Femau of Butte. One daughter, Erlene, preceded her father in death. Other sur vivors include 16 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; sister— Mrs. Maude E. Baldwin of Ola, Ark. Carson Aboard Ike’s Vessel Alvin R. Carson notified his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Carson, that he would arrive in the U. S. around December 16 or 18. He is aboard the USS Helena, the same ship Pres.-Elect Dwight Eisenhower was on when he re turned to the States. Alvin has made three trips to Korea. The last two trips were made since he was home last December. Jessees Annource New Enriched Bread— The Jessee Baking company of Grand Island and Sterling, Colo., announces in this issue the in auguration of a new loaf of en riched bread named Holsum. The new bread made its debut in O’Neill on Monday. The Jessee slogan is “check its quality” and heralded the arrival of the new loaf in a ser ies of advertisements announc ing the “checks are coming.” KC's to Treat Children — The Charles Carroll of Carroll ton council of the Knights of Co lumbus will be hosts to all St. Mary’s academy school children and pre-school age children on Sunday evening, starting at 7:30 o’clock. Santa Claus will be present, th^re will be cartoon movies and candy. It will be the first kid party sponsored by the Knights. -.-... i * ENLISTS IN NAVY Donald J. Cleveland and Floyd E. Harvey, both of Orchard, and Gene A. McCormick of Valen tine have enlisted in the navy through the Norfolk recruiting of fice and have left for San Diego, Calif., to begin their boot train ing. POSTOFFICE OPEN PAGE—The Page postoffice is open all day Saturdays until after Christmas to accommodate pa trons in their parcel post mail ings. \ RETURNS FROM KOREA . . . Army Pfc. Thomas (“Tommy”) Ressel (above) docked Tues day at San Francisco, Calif., after spending one year in Korea with an army engineer construction crew. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Res sel' of O’Neill. * 600 Persons Hear Handel’s ‘Messiah’ By a Staff Writer Before an audience of more than six hundred persons, the O’Neil Civic chorus Sunday pre sented its second annual produc tion of George Frederick Han del’s oratorio, “The Messiah.” Although the four soloists sang their roles with beauty, the real “excellent” mark of the work was the chorus. Director Charles B. Houser presented a better balanced, more confident group than in the initial presentation a year ago. The choral passages "For Unio Us a Child Is Born" and "Worthy Is the Lamb" were dramatic and powerful and left little room for improvement— what with accoustics as they are in the O'Neill high school auditorium and only a piano for accompaniment. Of course, Handel intended the choral work to have full orchestra accompaniment. Mrs. Phyllis Johnson Loy, con tralto, was the only repeat solo ist. The beauty of her voice, fa miliar to all O’Neill music lovers, was not lost to that part of the audience seated in the rear of the building. A guest soloist, John Schwartz, Atkinson high school band in structor, exhibited considerable talent and training with the bass passages. The swift runs were done with excellent command and sureness and the basso lack ed only in volume. R. W. Johnson was tenor solo ist and Mrs. Grant Peacock was soprano soloist, both performing in a creditable manner. Pianist was James G- Bastian and George Hammond was narrator. Most of the transitions from solo voice to chorus were made with only slight pauses and were accomplished with fine timing. The accoustical limitations of the building, lack of a backdrop to hide the plumbing and swing ing doors, and a handful of noisey children (who should be left at home because no child can be expected to be silent for one hour and 50 minutes) de tracted somewhat from the en joyment. The dramatic "Hallelujah" chorus was exceedingly well done for the amateur choral group composed of singers who simply love music. In keeping with tradition the audience stood for the finale and later joined in singing a carol, “Joy to the World.” The Woman’s club served re freshments to the musicians. Mrs. Robert Kurtz was in charge. Car-Train Collide; Driver Crawls from Wreckage Unhurt ATKINSON—George Searles of Atkinson started out at 5 a.m. Saturday in his auto to run his trap line. Crossing the North Western railway tracks east of Atkinson, his car and a freight train collided and his car was carried about 1,400 feet before the train could be stopped. Mr. Searles crawled over the front seat and out one of the back doors. He suffered only a few scratches. The car he was driving was badly damaged. Coyotes Appear in Deloit Vicinity DELOIT—Coyotes are becom ing quite numerous in the Deloit vicinity, several having been sighted within the past week. Some of them appear to be rath er bold. I ———————— Fire Leaves Family Homeless LYNCH—A Lynch farm fam ily which already has had more than its share of tough luck be came homeless Saturday after noon when fire destroyed their dwelling. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wiley, who reside five miles west of Lynch, were enroute to Grand Island to visit their son, Larry, a polio pa tient. Six of their eight children were left behind alone at the farm, which is owned by Mrs. Al vina Kramer. A defective chim ney is blamed for the fire which broke out about 2:30 p.m.. Flames spread rapidly and the house and a!l the contents were destroyed before assist ance could reach the scene from Bristow and Lynch. A driver of a gravel truck Hi Lucky Kids — New School Miss Shirley Rieck, teacher, poses with the eight pupils in Holt county rural school district 165 in front of the new frame school building. The school is located five miles south and one mile west of O’Neill. The pupils (left-to-right) are Deloris Pribil, Sharon Kallhoff, Richard Pribil, James Peter, Joan Peter, David Pribil, Gary Stowell and Ronnie Kallhoff. A formal open-house at the school will be observed Friday evening, December 19, in connection with the annual Christmas program. The new school, built alongside the half-century-old building, features a spacious big room with generous nat ural light and fluorescent lights, new fixtures, automatic heat, modern lavatories,, cloak-room and vestibule. Members of the board of educa tion are Melvin Rieck, Francis Pribil and Cyril Peter. It is the first new rural school to be con structed in the county in a number of years.— The Frontier Photo. Twin Girls and Brother Have Polio BRISTOW—Twin daughters, Betty and Bonnie, 9, of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolf Prokop of Bristow, were taken to a Grand Island hospital Monday, both suffering from polio. There they joined their 4 year-old brother, Charlie, who was taken to the same hospital last Thursday. Mrs. Kohler, Boyd Homesteader, Dies Burial Monday at Krakow LYNCH—Funeral services for Mrs. Agatha Kohler were held in the Assumption Blessed Vir gin church at Lynch Saturday, December 13, with Rev. John Wieczorek in charge. The re mains were forwarded -to Ful lerton where the body lay in state until Monday. Burial was in, Krakow cemetery in the family plot. Rosary was said Friday eve ning at 7:30 at the Coulthard fu neral home. Agatha Czarnik was bom in Tamov, Poland, February 5, 1878. She imigrated with her father to the United States in 1893. She was married to Charles Kohler at Krakow, Nebr., March 3, 1897. To this union five children were bom: Mrs. Matt Gdowski of Fullerton; Miss Clara Kohler of Fullerton; Mrs. Cecelia M. Mason of Denver, Colo; Agatha Kohler of O’Connor. One son, Thomas died May 6, 1933. Mrs. Kohler lived on the farm on which they homesteaded until Mr. Kohler’s death August 18, 1952. Since her husband’s death she made her home with her eldest daughter, Mrs. Matt Gdowski at Fullerton. She suffered a stroke while attending business matters at Lynch on November 12 and died at the Sacred Heart hos pital at Lynch December 11. Survivors include daughters— Mrs. Matt Gdowski and Miss Clara of Fullerton; Mrs. Cecelia Mason of Denver, Colo.; Miss Agatha Kohler of O’Connor; four grandsons; four granddaughters and three great-granddaughters. EARLY NEXT WEEK The Frontier will go to press 24 hours earlier than usual next week. It will be impera tive for correspondents and contributors to file their news matter not later than Monday to insure publication. By pub lishing early the December 25 issue will reach subscribers be fore Christmas day. A short in the electric wiring of a big semi-truck, owned by a Norfolk firm, brought out the O’Neill firemen at 7:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. Very little damage resulted. ?^w the flames and summoned' help. One of the girls ran to the road to attract the driver’s atten tion. Two of the Wiley children have been polio sufferers this fall. The eldest, Larry, is considered im proved although there is some concern about a permanent par aysis. The fire which consummed all their personal effects, except those which members of the family were wearing, has created a real hardship for the Ed Wileys, explained one of the neighbors. The two polio cases have been a blow to the Bovd county family and now the Wi leys, who have been tenant farmers, have lost all their per sonal belongings in the blaze. The house is situated three Missionary Couple Visits Belgium AMELIA—H. S. White received^ a letter from his grandson, Mer lin Adamson, who with his wife, Vera, are missionaries to Africa. At present they are in Brussels, Belgium, where they are attend ing school and mainly studying French. Mr. White permitted The Fron tier’s correspondent to copy a few interesting excerpts from the letter: “We have been here in Bel gium now for about four months. That is just one-third of the time we are supposed to be here as we are required by the j government to stay at least ono year. We are staying in the BbF gium Methodist pastor’s home. The family doesn’t know English, and so we get to hear good French, especially at meal time. There are other missionaries staying here also, who do not speak much French. So we have made a rule that we speak only French at the supper table. “The houses here are built right up against each other so that the wall of one house is also the wall of the next Usually the houses are one room wide^ but they go back from the street two or three rooms and are four and five stories high. The bath room opens onto our room and everyoms has to come through our room to get to it which is about once a week as we only get one bath a week. “Some places here in Brussels the missionaries have to pay ex tra for their bath. “They started getting the shop windows decorated for Christmas here way back in Oc tober. They do have some pret ty and interesting window dis plays in the big department stores. The Catholics give their gifts here on December 6, which is St Nicholas day. “St Nicholas (or Santa Claus) is supposed to come riding on a donkey. The Boys and girls put their shoes by the chimney in stead of hanging up their stock ings. “Some of the things we noticed, when we first came were the monuments and statues every where and at every corner. The people here like flowers and you see flower vendors on the streets with the most beautiful flowers, selling much cheaper than in the U. S. ‘The butcher shops are very interesting. One day we made a list of things we saw in the win dow. There were pigs feet, stom ach and strips of brains, beef and pork, kidneys, tongue, liver, beef steak and neart, marrow bone split in half, cooked udder, lungs, strips of roasting meat, whole uncooked sheeps head, beef muz zle (a kind of pressed loaf made of beef head), tails, beef and pork head, both cooked and uncooked > fourths of a mile back from the road. The Frontier did not learn if the loss was covered by insur ance. Neighbors were rallying this week to provide food, clothing and shelter for the Wileys. They’re easy to fit—man, wife and eight children. Almost any old garment is bound to be use able, an interested neighbor ex plained. The Wileys’ oldest daughter resides in Missouri. While the parents were enroute to Grand Island they also were going to stop at Burwell to see Mr. Wi ley’s brother, who recently suf fered a heart attack. * > whole and split. There may have been some other things we didn’t notice. I guess they use the whole animal here. “They have a lot of car acci dents here. No one needs a driv er’s license. All they need is the money to own and drive a car. 1 A person really has to watch be cause a car never shows down or stops for a pedestrian. It just keeps coming, blowing its horn. They seem to have quite a few American cars. “I guess thitf Christmas won’t be quite like one we would spend in the U. S. However, the mean ing of Christmas can be just as real and wonderful to us here as it would be there. — MERLIN AND VERA ADAMSON." Sire Shows Champ Bull at Butte Niobrara Sale Hits $13,212.50 • •' " BUTTE—As a result of a nice break in the weather Friday, several hundred farmers, ranch ers and business people turned out to witness the second annual fall Hereford show and sale at Butte. The judging of the bulls got underway at 10 o’clock in the morning with Chuck Cook plac ing the classes. By noon all the cattle were judged and the judge had decided on the champion and reserve champion bulls. Championship honors went to W. G. (“Walt”) Sire of Butte with Bozato Mixer 171st. W. D. Nelson of Walnut purchased this bull for $720, which was the top price for the day. Reserve cham pion honors went to Clyde Fish er of Spencer with CF Exalt 2d. This reserve champion bull com manded $530 and was purchased by Roy Dresher of Spencer. The entire 30 bulls averaged $398 with the top 10 averaging $499 a hqgd. None of the bulls were highly-fitted but showed a lot of qual’ty. There were only six females offered for sale. L. J. Lechten berg of Spencer showed the top heifer, LH Lady Aster 32nd. In second place was Lou Domino, owned by E. M. Engelhaupt of Butte. Clyde Fisher’s heifer, CF Elatress 1st, commanded third. Col. Ernie Weller, auctioneer, was assisted in the ring by Gene Reinbolt of the Nebraska Here ford association and Mr. Cook. Herd Bull Brings $810 in Farm Sale — CHAMBERS—Mischief Dom ino, 4-year-old herd bull, brought $810 Wednesday, December 10, in the George Atkinson & Son farm closeout sale near Amelia. The bull was purchased by Carl Bar thel of Amelia. A big crowd was on hand and the milk cows averaged $183. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson are moving to McPherson, Kans., in June. The ranch has been sold to Gilbert Anderson of Burwell, who has taken possession. Col. Ed Thorin was auctioneer. Speech Class Finishes Course with Dinner — The final meeting of the busi ness and professional speech class was held Wednesday evening at the Town House. Royal Henuline, superintendent of schools at Ne ngh, has taught the class for the past li sessions. Husband and wives of the members of the class were invited. After dinner each member gave a short speech and a. gift was presented to Mr. Hen line. marriage licenses Duane B. Sukup of Walnut, stationed at Ft. Lee, Va., and Miss Jaeaueline Russell of Page, De cember 17. Basin Hearing Is Enthusiastic Benton Mellor Wins National Honor ATKINSON — Benton Mellor, ' 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. j Mellor, is one of four Nebraskans winning 1952 national 4 - H honors in the beautificat ion of home ground division of com petition. Other Ne braska winners were Betty Benton Mellor Benisek, 17, of Ravenna; Gerald Busekist, 20, of Elkhom, and LeRoy B e c w a r, 20, of Exeter. Beautification of home grounds accomplishments not only gave the Mellor family of Atkinson merited Benton state honors in the program. Many hours of in genious planning and hard work were reported. Although Benton began his home ground improve ment project some years back, he considers his more recent work of greatest importance. When the Mellors bought their new home it was badly neglect ed and run down and gave ev eryone plenty to do. Filling in dirt and the foundation, parti tioning off new rooms, remodel ing the old wiring and insulating he learned to do and do well. 2 Hurt in 2-Car . Headon Collision EWING — Two persons were hurt seriously in a headon collision of two automobiles about 11 o’clock Friday night midway between Ewing and Clearwater. Machines driven by Paul Cooper, 27, Ewing high music instructor, and Fred Prater of Clearwater came together on the east side of the road. Cooper and five Ewing high school students, who were passengers, were en route to Ewing from Elgin fol lowing a basketball game. Cooper and Miss Catherine Bauer, 13, daughter of Mrs. Rose Bauer of Ewing, were taken to Antelope Memorial hospital at Neligh. Cooper suffered from se vere scalp lacerations, abrasions and shock. Miss Bauer suffered from bruises and shock. Five others were seen by phy sicians but not admitted at the hospital. The injured were taken to Neligh by Richard Miller and Jerry Tom jack. Henry Walter of O’Neill, a passerby, picked up Prater, his two passengers, Mrs. Prater and William Gokie, and took them to Clearwater. Miss Bauer was released from the hospital Sunday but Mr. Cooper is still at Neligh. Passen gers in the Cooper car who were slightly injured were Maxine Noffke and Vera Dell Daniels. After the impact the two ma chines ended up on their sides 174 feet apart. Patrolman Robert Gude of O’ Neill investigated. ★ ★ ★ -_< City Host Today to Church Leader Dr. Hermann Morse Will Speak O’Neill will be host today (Thursday) to the holder of the highest office in the Presbyter ian church of the U S. Dr. Hermann Nelson Morse of New York City is expected to arrive about 2 p.m., from Omaha and address a meeting of the Niobrara Presbytery of the church. The Presbytery repre sents 27 northeast Nebraska par ishes. Clergy, elders, laymen and laywomen from through out this section of the stale will be present, according to Rev. Samuel D. Lee, church pastor. The Woman’s association will serve a turkey dinner to the guests in the church basement, starting at 5:30 p.m. A moder ator’s service will be held at 7:30 p.m. A public meeting is scheduled for the evening. Reverend Lee explained Wednesday that the O’Nill public school auditorium has been reserved and will be used for the public meeting in the event the crowd overflows the church auditorium. He is widely-known as an influential statesman in Amer ican Protestantism. His princi pal field of activity is in home missions. The renowned church leader will make four stops in Nebras ka in addition to the O’Neill vis it. He has scheduled appear ances in Omaha, Lincoln, Hast ings and Kearney. Builds Model of New ‘U’ Building A scale model of a proposed addition to the University of Ne braska’s student union brought $25 to university students Rob ert Beckenhauer of O’Neill and Nestor Acevedo of Santurce, Puerto Rico. Their plan won first prize in class competition among inter mediate design students in the department of architecture. Second prize of $15 was won by Robert Krumwiede of Whit tier, Calif. A team of John E. Peterson of Omaha and Harold L. Tarr of Lincoln won $10 for plac ing third. The prizes were of fered by the Student Union’s board of managers. The start of actual construction of the addition is still a long time | away, Duane Lake, managing di rector of the union said. He ex- | plained that the designs sub mitted by students serve as a preliminary study of the ' ^rious problems involved. PUns will be j made, he added, ith the Nebras ka chapter of the American In stitute of Architecture for pro fessional architects to submit their own studies and drawings at a later date. >-—— S Prater and Cooper machines . . . collide head-on midway be tween Clearwater and Ewing, come to stop 174 feet apart. (Story above.)—The Frontier Photo. , ' . 7T'? ^ T^:-" nr:*”*!* f 4 Object to Plan for ' Reclamation Work ;. 1,533 Sign Petitions Persons, from Holt, Boyd and Knox counties gathered here Tuesday for the first in a series of four official hearings called by Gov. Val Peterson in regard to the bureau of reclamation’s proposal for development of the Niobrara river basin. It can be said the tenor of the O’Neill hearing was enthusiastic. Thirty-one persons volunteered to speak at the hearing conduct ed by Dan S. Jones, jr., chief of the irrigation division of the Ne braska department of roads and irrigation. Four persons—Boyd rountyans living along Ponca creek, a trib utary of the Niobrara—rose to be counted as not in favor of the reclamation bureau’s plan, which was outlined by Clyde E. Bur dick of Ainsworth, area engineer for the bureau. One hundred thirty persons were registered at the meeting representing a cross-section of farmers, ranchers, business and professional men govern mental agency people. Speaking against the plan were Harry Lewis, Frank Lewis. Ben Mahlendorf and Marion Mohr, all of Butte. Their farm land would be inundated by the proposed Ponca creek reservoir* which is intended to irrigate ap proximately eight thousand acres of Boyd county land. A total of eight or 10 Boyd famil 2s would be moved by the Psr.ca project, which is one of tne smaller units in the overall basin plan. One o* the dissenters said ht» had resided 60 years on his place and he objected vigorously to the prospect of having his land condemned. By coincidence the only other opposition to the overall plan heard todate has come from a handful of ranchers along the Snake river, also a tributary of the Niobrara. More of this oppo sition is expected to be heard today (Thursday) in a similar hearing at Valentine. Hie second hearing in the series was con ducted Wednesday at Ainsworth.. The fourth and final hearing will be held Friday at Gordon. Tuesday's O'Neill hearing was intended to produce the reactions of persons in the eastern one-third of the Among O’Neill people speak ing in behalf of the irrigation plan were: President William McIntosh of the Chamber of Commerce; Mayor J. E. Davis, District Judge D. R. Mounts* Harry E. Ressel, Tony Asimus, A. Neil Dawes, Ed Wilson, John F. Dick, Clarence Ernst and James W. Rooney. From Ewing: Lyle P. Dierkjt From Atkinson: John Tenborg* Walter Ries and Ralph J. KeHy. From Spencer: John Krotter" and Clyde Fisher. From Bristow: C C. Nelson* L. W. Gibson and Conrad Thor ell. From Niobrara: John D. For syth, who also is director of the Mississippi Valley Basin Devel opment association. From Omaha: Val Kuska, ag riculture agent for the Burling ton railroad. fTom Lincoln: H. G. Greena mayre, president of the Nebras ka Reclamation association. From Columbus: R. L. Schacht* general manager of Consumers Public Power district in Nebras ka. A resolution was signed by 1* 533 residents of the region. There were 428 signers from Bristow, 79 from Spencer, 62 from Butte, all in Boyd county; 379 from Verdigre (Knox); 342 from O’Neill and 142 from At kinson (Holt). The resolution, presented to Mr. Jones, urged the governor “to give full consideration to tho proposed development of the re sources of the Niobrara river ba sin in order that this portion of Nebraska might enjoy the same prosperity and stable economy common to other areas where rainfall is sufficient to produce abundant crops.” The resolution added; “Full development of land and water resources of the Niobrara would stabilize economy by in suring sufficient moisture each year and alleviate serious: drouths that have occurred in the past.” Verne, Lindholm of Ains worth, president of the Nio brara Basin Development asso ciation, was present at the meeting. Accompanying Jones were Bert Overcash of Lincoln, assist ant attorney-general, and an en gineer who recorded ali testi mony on tape. Others present included * Charles A. Jeffers of Omaha* national park service represent ative; Douglas D. Lewis of Lin coln, U.S. geodetic survey sur face water division; E. L. 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